Qualla: East Kilbride https://qualla.com/east-kilbride en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: East Kilbride https://qualla.com/east-kilbride East Kilbride: Introduction https://qualla.com/east-kilbride/ In March 1974 a group of workers at the Rolls-Royce factory in East Kilbride watched the news from Chile. General Pinochet's air force had bombed La Moneda Palace the previous September; the elected president Salvador Allende was dead; thousands of Chileans were being tortured and disappeared. Then the workers noticed something in the queue on the factory floor: engines from the Chilean air force, sent to East Kilbride for servicing. They refused to touch them. The black-listed engines sat unrepaired at the back of the plant from 1974 until 1978 - a quiet act of solidarity that the documentary Nae Pasaran (2018) finally told the world about. Today one of those engines stands as a monument outside South Lanarkshire College.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/east-kilbride-wp/gcvj-east-kilbride-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full East Kilbride: Scotland's First New Town https://qualla.com/east-kilbride/ On 6 May 1947 East Kilbride was designated Scotland's first New Town. Before the designation it was a village of about 900 people on a raised plateau eight miles southeast of Glasgow. The Clyde Valley Regional Plan of 1946 had argued that Glasgow's chronic overcrowding, made wors...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/east-kilbride-wp/gcvj-east-kilbride-scotlands-first-new-town.mp3 0:06 2 full East Kilbride: St Brigid Without the Bride https://qualla.com/east-kilbride/ The name predates the new town by more than a thousand years. The 'kil' is from Gaelic cille, borrowed from Latin for chapel or cell; 'bride' is from St Bride or Brigit, the Irish saint of Kildare. Whether there was ever an actual chapel dedicated to her at East Kilbride is genui...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/east-kilbride-wp/gcvj-east-kilbride-st-brigid-without-the-bride.mp3 0:06 3 full East Kilbride: Polo Mint City https://qualla.com/east-kilbride/ Glaswegians joke that East Kilbride is 'Polo Mint City' for its love of roundabouts. The actual count, as of August 2023 by serious survey work, stands at 199 - far short of the often-cited 'over 600,' but still enough that a drive across town can feel like a video game. Most hav...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/east-kilbride-wp/gcvj-east-kilbride-polo-mint-city.mp3 0:06 4 full East Kilbride: Architecture, Birthplaces, Bog https://qualla.com/east-kilbride/ East Kilbride contains a surprising amount worth seeing. The Dollan Baths (1968) is a Category A listed swimming pool designed by Alexander Buchanan Campbell, inspired by Pier Luigi Nervi's Rome Olympic pool and very similar to the Japanese Olympic pool of 1964 - the first champi...

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